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SPE South Central Chapter includes:
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas

Chair Jennifer Robison
Vice Chair/Secretary Michael Mulvey
Treasurer Humna Raza
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Welcome to the South Central Chapter! We cover a huge area, including Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Our members include students, educators, curators, and independent artists, and we would love to count you among our number. 

CHAPTER LEADERSHIP & VOLUNTEERS

  • Jennifer Robison, Chair (2025-2027)
  • Michael Mulvey, Vice-Chair/Secretary (2026-2028)
  • Humna Raza, Treasurer (2023-2025)

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Upcoming Conference

Visual Currents

2026 SPESC Photography Conference

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock - Little Rock, Arkansas   |   October 23 - October 24, 2026

We're thrilled to announce that the University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host the 2026 SPE South Central Chapter Conference! Join us for two days of talks, exhibitions, and community events celebrating photography and education in the region.

This year's conference will feature acclaimed photographer Todd Hido as keynote speaker, along with an exhibition of his work and that of Angela Strassheim, plus a juried members and student exhibition at UA Little Rock.

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Member Galleries

AnnieLaurie Erickson

10

Deb Lillie

8

Scott Hilton

96

Roberta Ledbetter

2

Dason Pettit

31

Marilyn Waligore

12

Madeline McHugh-Gandy

3

Marcie Kindred

32

Betty Press

24

Meg Griffiths

50

Sonja Rieger

6

Mary Addison Hackett

24

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Elena (@thinstring) and Nate (@natelarsonphoto) are excited to co-chair a panel for the 2027 SPE Conference (@spenational) in Minneapolis. The call for participation went live today - if your work/practice/ethos are a match, perhaps you’ll share with us for possible inclusion? Submission information here: https://www.spenational.org/2027sessionlist Beyond Documentary: Reimaging Expanded Practices Co-Chairs: Nate Larson (@natelarsonphoto) & Elena Volkova (@thinstring) This panel will consider photography as a collaborative, process-driven practice that can foster resilience within communities shaped by trauma. Expanding documentary modes, strategies to be discussed will emphasize participation, co-authorship, and ethical accountability, positioning image-makers in a continuing and expanding partnership with their subjects to promote belonging, create space for agency, self-representation, and shared narrative control. Central questions include analysis of power: who controls representation, how images circulate, and what responsibilities do practitioners have to/for/with communities with whom they engage? We will also explore how participants actively shape the conditions of their own visibility, while negotiating and redirecting the gaze to challenge histories of marginalization and imposed ways of seeing. The panel will also explore the nature of long-term and ongoing engagements: how do relationships form and change over time and how does this shift the work itself? How can social practice and engagement support dignity and community resilience over expanded timeframes? We invite panel submissions from photographers, social-practice artists, and artist collaboratives that work in socially and community engaged, and/or expanded documentary practices and are willing to share critical moments, vulnerabilities, and successes within their work.

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Elena (@thinstring) and Nate (@natelarsonphoto) are excited to co-chair a panel for the 2027 SPE Conference (@spenational) in Minneapolis. The call for participation went live today - if your work/practice/ethos are a match, perhaps you’ll share with us for possible inclusion? Submission information here: https://www.spenational.org/2027sessionlist Beyond Documentary: Reimaging Expanded Practices Co-Chairs:...

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